Gold Coast — It rained early medals for SA at the Commonwealth Games on Thursday‚ with wrestling‚ mountain biking and lawn bowls contributing four gongs. Wrestler Johannes Botha was the first on the map as he qualified for the final against India’s Kumar Sushil‚ scheduled for later on Thursday. And Colleen Piketh and Nicolene Neal stole through to the women’s lawns gold medal match on Friday after coming back from the dead against England in the quarterfinal and to a lesser extent against Scotland in the semifinal. Mountain biker Alan Hatherly‚ who broke his arm in a race in February‚ took bronze to spoil what would otherwise have been an all-New Zealand party on the podium. "To come back to a race of this level and medal is huge‚" said the 22-year-old. "I was racing against the best in the world. Super tough course‚ happy to have been here two weeks back to adjust to the humidity here." In bowls, the disabled men’s triple took bronze after beating England 16-13. The two sides had p...
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